Interesting facts on milk products

[Guest guest]

Here are some very interesting facts on dairy products that I found.

I hope it's alright to copy and paste these on here....just for those

who wish to find out more about pus in milk, or who have never heard

of such a thing as pus in milk. The FDA is all over this one.

With love, Clarise.

 

 

 

 

The dairy industry knows that there is a problem with pus in milk.

Accordingly, it has developed a system known as the " somatic cell

count " to measure the amount of pus in milk. The somatic cell

count

is the standard used to gauge milk quality. The higher the somatic

cell count, the more pus in the milk.

Any milk with a somatic cell count of higher than 200 million per

liter should not enter the human food supply, according to the dairy

industry. Therefore, anyone living in a state where the somatic cell

count is higher than 200 million shouldn't be drinking milk.

There's

only one problem—every state but Hawaii is producing milk with

pus

levels so high that it shouldn't enter the human food supply!

(http://www.notmilk.com/lawbreakers.html)

 

One culprit causing the hundreds of millions of pus cells in every

liter of milk may be " bovine growth hormone, " the Monsanto

chemical

company's growth hormone marketed as Posilac. Posilac is now

widely

used by dairy farmers to increase the amount of milk that their

already overburdened cows produce. Because cows are not built to

produce this much milk, they are prone to a painful udder infection

called mastitis. When they are milked, pus and bacteria from the

infection flow right along with the milk. The journal Nature reported

that Posilac increases somatic cells—pus—in the milk by a

whopping 19

percent! Researchers estimate that an ordinary glass of milk contains

between one and seven drops of pus. This isn't just

disgusting—it can

also be dangerous. Pus can contain paratuberculosis bacteria, which

are believed to cause Crohn's disease in human beings.

 

Dairy farmers try to control the rampant mastitis with large doses of

antibiotics—but these antibiotics also wind up in the milk.

Children

are particularly vulnerable to the effects of too many antibiotics,

which researchers believe can inhibit the development of the immune

system.

 

PETA is calling on the USDA to lower the legal limit of allowable pus

cells in milk to the limit used by the rest of the industrialized

world. Presently, our limit is nearly twice that. Seventeen states

are producing milk that would be illegal to sell in Europe!

(http://www.dumpdairy.com/pus.html)

 

 

Pus in milk? A dairy cow filters ten-thousand

quarts of blood through her udder each day and

uses dead white blood cells (somatic cells) to

manufacture her milk. These dead cells are pus

cells. Dairy scientists are aware that when

one quart of milk is tainted with 400 million

or more pus cells, some 35% of the milking

cows in the herd are infected with mastitis.

Udders bleed, discharges, including bacteria

and blood drip into the milk.

 

Dairy products are commonly tainted with disease-causing bacteria,

such as salmonella, staphylococci, listeria, deadly E. coli O1573 and

Mycobacterium paratuberculosis(possibly one of the agents causing

Crohn's disease; a form of life-threatening chronic colitis), as well

as viruses known to cause lymphoma and leukemia-like diseases, and

immune deficiency in cattle.

 

AIDS and Leukemia Viruses Dairy cattle are infected with bovine

immunodeficiency viruses (BIV) and bovine leukemia viruses (BLV),

worldwide. (Bovine immunodeficiency viruses can also be properly

referred to as bovine AIDS viruses.)

 

In the United States, results show an average 40% of beef herds and

64% of dairy herds are infected with BIV. Herds infected with the

BIV are usually infected with the leukemia virus (BLV) also.

 

Both viruses can cross species lines thus infecting other animals,

like sheep, goats, and chimpanzees, and they develop disease.

 

BIV infection has been reported in a person.

 

The bovine leukemia virus has been classified in the same group as

the Human T-cell Leukemia/Lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1), which

is known to cause leukemia and lymphomas in humans (Adult T-cell

leukemia/lymphoma).

 

BIV is structurally and genetically closely related to human

immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type-1 (the virus causing human AIDS).

 

Pasteurization kills many types of microorganisms, but it is not

foolproof. There is also concern that pasteurization may break the

viruses into fragments that may become even more dangerous.

 

Has it been shown that the bovine AIDS and/or leukemia viruses will

infect you and cause disease? No. Nor has it been proved that they

will not. Compared to the efforts to try to convince you of the bone-

building benefits of milk, almost nothing has been spent to establish

whether or not it is safe to feed your family dairy products teeming

with bovine immunodeficiency and bovine leukemia viruses (and/or

viral fragments). Some countries take this matter very seriously. For

example, in many European countries, health officials have conducted

programs to eradicate infected herds; Finland' program has

successfully eradicated BLV from its cattle.

Exposure to cow's milk protein early in life, when the intestinal

tract is immature, sometimes results in the milk protein entering the

blood stream where antibodies to this foreign substance, cow's milk,

are made by the immune system. Unfortunately, these same antibodies

also attack the insulin- producing cells of the pancreas. By glassful

of milk after spoonful of ice cream, over a period of about 5 to 7

years, the child destroys his or her own pancreas and is left with a

lifelong, life-threatening, handicap: diabetes. The pancreas is

forever destroyed and the child will have to take insulin shots

daily. Complications, such as blindness, kidney failure, and heart

disease will be a real threat during his or her shortened lifespan

 

Constipation. Not as life-threatening as diabetes, but for some as

mentally and physically distressing, is chronic constipation. As a

doctor who has cared for hundreds of children, I can tell you they

suffer with pain, bleeding, hemorrhoids, and embarrassment. The

causal effects of cowâ*s milk were clearly demonstrated in a study

of

65 severely constipated children published in the New England Journal

of Medicine.

 

These boys and girls complained of only one bowel movement every 3 to

15 days and many didn't even respond to strong laxatives (lactulose

and mineral oil). Forty-four of the 65 (68%) found relief of their

constipation when taken off the cow's milk. Evidence of inflammation

of the bowel was found on biopsy, and anal fissures and pain were

commonly associated with the constipation " elimination of the cow's

milk solved these problems. "

 

When cow's milk was reintroduced into their diet 8 to 12 months

later, all of the children developed constipation within 5 to 10

days. For constipation alone, cow's milk should be banned from the

School Milk Programs, worldwide.

(http://www.rense.com/general38/pus.htm By John McDougall, MD)

 

DISEASES CAUSED BY, OR LINKED TO, DAIRY PROTEINS General: Loss of

appetite, growth retardation. Upper Gastrointestinal: Canker sores

(aphthous stomatitis), irritation of tongue, lips and mouth, tonsil

enlargement, vomiting, gastroesophageal reflux (GERD), Sandifer's

syndrome, peptic ulcer disease, colic, stomach cramps, abdominal

distention, intestinal obstruction, type-1 diabetes. Lower

Gastrointestinal: Bloody stools, colitis, malabsorption, diarrhea,

painful defecation, fecal soiling, infantile colic, chronic

constipation, infantile food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome

(FPIES), Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis. Respiratory: Nasal

stuffiness, runny nose, otitis media (inner ear trouble), sinusitis,

wheezing, asthma, and pulmonary infiltrates. Bone and joint:

Rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, Beheta's

disease, (possibly psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis).

Skin: Rashes, atopic dermatitis, eczema, seborrhea, hives (urticaria)

Nervous System (Behavioral): Multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease,

autism, schizophrenia, irritability, restlessness, hyperactivity,

headache, lethargy, fatigue, " allergic-tension fatigue syndrome, "

muscle pain, mental depression, enuresis (bed-wetting). Blood:

Abnormal blood clotting, iron deficiency anemia, low serum proteins,

thrombocytopenia, and eosinophilia. Other: Nephrotic syndrome,

glomerulonephritis, anaphylactic shock and death, sudden infant death

syndrome (SIDS or crib or cot death), injury to the arteries causing

arteritis, and eventually, atherosclerosis. References are available

through the National Library of Medicine, http://www.nlm.nih.gov -

Search cow's milk and any of the diseases listed above.

 

All dairy products contain milk proteins, including skim milk,

yogurt, cheese, and butter, and many butter substitutes. Milk

proteins are listed in packaged food products with a variety of

names, such as milk solids, skim milk powder, casein, caseinates,

whey, and albumin. Milk is also often put into packaged foods and not

declared on the label - this is illegal and punishable by FDA action.

 

Once consumed, this food-derived acid must be neutralized in the

body. Fruits and vegetables can do this neutralizing (these foods are

alkaline in nature). However, because the diet of the average

Westerner is so deficient in fruits and vegetables and so high in

acid foods, the primary neutralizer of dietary acid becomes their

bones. The bones dissolve to release alkaline materials.

 

Last month, the first genetically-engineered food product went on

sale in the U.S., after final approval by the Food and Drug

Administration (FDA). The product is a cow growth hormone

(called recombinant bovine growth hormone, or rBGH), intended for

needle injection into milk cows every two weeks to make them

produce more milk. Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and

the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario

have banned commercial use of synthetic bovine growth hormones.

(The rBGH hormone is sometimes called rBST, recombinant bovine

somatotropin.)

Introduction of the rBGH product last month was met by an uproar

from consumers who want the product banned until safety questions

have been resolved and who want milk labeled if it is produced

from rBGH-treated cows. Monsanto, the chemical company that has

brought the first rBGH product to market, vigorously opposes

labeling.

FDA has sided with Monsanto in opposing labeling of milk produced

by drug-treated cows, and has gone one step further. FDA opposes

labeling of products that are free of rBGH. FDA has even

threatened legal action against milk suppliers and grocers who

label their milk as free of the rBGH drug.[2] FDA says there is

" no significant difference " between milk from rBGH-treated cows

and milk from cows not treated, and thus a label saying

" rBGH-free " would imply a difference that did not exist, and this

would constitute false labeling.[3] Monsanto has filed two

lawsuits against milk processors who labeled their product as

free of rBGH and has mailed warnings to others who might be

tempted to label their milk as rBGH-free.[4] The FDA's position

on labeling was developed under the direction of Michael R.

Taylor, a lawyer who joined FDA in 1991 after almost a decade as

a partner in the law firm that Monsanto hired to gain FDA

approval of rBGH and that last month brought Monsanto's lawsuits

against milk producers who labeled their products rBGH-free.